i guess you should convert to a system using a filesystem which is not
mounted asynchronous by default. if you got the time check out free or
netbsd. i'll send you the man page for newfs on freebsd4 via pm.
having a mailspool and users mailboxes on a filesystem like ext2 is like
pointing a gun at your foot, playing with the trigger, waiting what
happens next.
/k
Al Sparks([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.04 17:59:29 +0000:
> We�re in the process of planning a migration of email from a sendmail
> server using pop3 type of service, to qmail using IMAP (courier). We
> have about 300 users.
>
> Since the email isn�t going to get downloaded off the server, and we�re
> planning on Maildir format (required if we�re using Courier) that means
> each delivered email uses 1 inode.
>
> I realize this is a little off-topic for this list, but there must be
> email administrators that have had to deal with this. We�re running
> Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14) with ext2 file system. How many
> inodes would be sufficient for that kind of setup? Are there any
> statistics out there on how many email messages an average user will
> keep in his/her mailbox? What�s the largest number of inodes you can
> configure for on a partition? (How do you? man mkfs isn�t very
> helpful.)
> === Al
>
>
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